There aren’t that many fellow conservatives. In those days, I posted up how I’m a ‘big tent republican’. From my home page:
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I’m a big tent republican.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1821435/posts?page=18455
Here’s an analogy to work with. Take a small box and fill it with some rocks. Then add some rice, filling it to the top. Now take all the same stuff, but in a different order. Put in the rice first, then add the rocks. What you’ll find is that if you put in the big stuff first, the small stuff will fit around it. But if you put in the small stuff first, the big stuff won’t have room. The republican tent is the box. The Big issues are the socon issues, to be put in first. The little issues are things that can be accommodated around the bigger stuff. A candidate who tries to focus on the smaller issues first and leave out the bigger issues has no way of getting all of us into the tent. He splits the party. The candidate who gets the big stuff right and as much of the little stuff that will fit, he can fit more into the tent. We’re often amazed at how much rice can keep fitting in. Folks such as Rudy or Romney flunk some of the big issues, and on some of the little issues it looks to me like anyone else’s rice would do just as well. All that remains for us to agree on is which are the bedrock principles and which are not. Why would there be so much invective aimed at rudy or romney from the right? Because there are some bedrock principles that he is leaving out. Bad move. I see rudybot and romneybot postings all the time saying that they would vote for Hunter or Palin, and I see socon postings that say they would not vote for rudy or romney. That’s a BIG indicator of a few bedrock principles that are being left outside the tent in order to let in some rice.
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“Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” ~Benito Mussolini
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Very good Kevmo. And it takes a very good leader to move the tent posts to the right, while keeping (most) everyone still in the tent.
Coolidge, Reagan and then Trump, IMO, are the only three in the last 100 years to do so. Between Coolidge and Reagan, we had a 50 year gap. Between Reagan and Trump, 28 years. At best they were able to halt the march leftward while in office.
But as soon as they were out, that march immediately resumed and usually accelerated. We can’t afford these types of gaps anymore. Time is running out on the Republic; the patient is in critical condition.